Autonomous system
AS37457 Telkom-Internet
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Telkom SA (South Africa)
isp eyeball backbone
Telkom SA (Telkom-Internet) — South Africa's incumbent fixed-line telecom and a major broadband provider.
What it's used for
- Fixed broadband and backbone connectivity across South Africa, plus mobile via its Telkom Mobile arm.
Notable
- The incumbent fixed "eyeball" network in South Africa, historically the country's dominant landline operator.
Interesting
- South Africa's international bandwidth depends on submarine cables landing on its coasts; Telkom has long been a key operator of that capacity.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.241 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.13 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.100 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.51 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 510 prefixes · 1.58M addresses IPv6 7 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 517 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37457- Registry name
- ORG-TSL2-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Telkom SA Ltd.
- Registered
- 2012-06-12
- Last changed
- 2017-08-31
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 89% valid · 1,487 valid, 184 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS37457
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.5% registered · 1,662 of 1,671 announcements
- Route objects
- 95 naming AS37457
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere